Anon plays Persona 5

Every time it goes on sale, I think about picking it up, but then I remember…

It takes me long enough to finish 10-hour games I already own…

I highly recommend the game, but I totally get you. I didn’t buy it for years for the exact same reason. Eventually it was on a good sale when I was between games so I got a chance to play it. If you’re an anime fan you will probably love the game. And if you’re not, it may be cringy as fuck on occasion but you’ll probably still love the game after getting sucked in. But if you end up never playing it, that’s totally fine too. I’ve found in life that you don’t need to watch every movie and play every video that are highly praised. I still haven’t played the Mass Effect games even after owning all of them for 5 or so years.

I’ve found in life that you don’t need to watch every movie and play every video that are highly praised.

You’re absolutely right and I’m glad I reread that sentence: at first I somehow missed the “don’t” and was gearing up for a long and pointless rebuttal of what I THOUGHT I just read 😄

Personally, I’m a sucker for long completion time. I only like specific types of games that don’t get released that often, so I’m always in danger of running out of games I haven’t replayed to death yet 😁

Most of it being cutscenes is a huge negative if not an outright dealbreaker to me, though.

I do feel like some of these games lose their premise if they grind on for too long. I think Haru Okumura’s dungeon is one of the more inspired, but by the time you get there, the game loop has gotten stale. Then the finale is just an interminably long series of hallways.

They could have compressed that game by half (especially towards the back end), keyed up on the drama, and maybe fleshed out the daytime normal-life content a bit more.

But I say that within the context of a game with a truly captivating story, some solid twists and top 10 anime betrayals, and a charming romance system that draws you into the characters. Had a great experience on my playthrough. Can’t imagine ever trying to play it again, but it was a wild ride the first time.

This is a different type of RPG, but I’ve been playing Wrath of the Righteous and it takes forever to complete. There’s a specific city dungeon alone that takes real life days to finish if you do everything.

It’s one of those games with a fun grind. With how snappy the UI and everything is, nothing ever really feels like a chore. I played Xenoblade Chronicles recently and I think it took my 50lbs to beat, but those 50lbs felt longer than Persona’s 100+ hours.

I like Xenoblade more personally anyway, but just wanted to share my experience.

Measuring games by weight? Neat.

Not sure if tired or autocorrect, but I’ll leave it as is

As a kid in the 80s with extremely limited funds, I used to buy games based on the swag.

Like damn, this game came with a cloth map? Yes!

I’ve tried P4G and I just can’t stand the required grind, nor the 3h bossfights, otherwise good game

lol 3h boss fights wtf game were you playing

Persona 4 Golden, though it may have been a result of me just pushing through the dungeon without any grind

the required grind

JRPG moment 😭

I can’t think of a single remotely modern JRPG with required grinding. It’s usually that you have the choice between learning how the game works or overleveling to brute force everything. People then do the latter and don’t even realize the former was an option.

142h completionist : LOL

Those numbers would be awesome, if it wasn’t a Persona game. My friend tried getting me into it on the PS1 and I bounced right off.

If it’s not for you it’s not for you, but I will say the Persona series took a big turn for the better around Persona 3. The modern ones don’t have a whole lot in common with the first couple beyond some basic play structure. If the last one you played was on the PS1 and you’re at all interested in an anime JRPG then P5 is worth a second look.

Yeah the last anime JRPG I really liked was the original Xenogears. Unless Nier counts.
But lots of people love Persona, and I think that’s awesome. Rock what you like!

I don’t have time for games that long

plays Factorio for the 274th hour

A friend of mine tried to convince me to get Factorio a couple days ago. Couldn’t help but feel like he was a junky trying to get me to try just a little bit of heroin.

It’s more like crack or meth. You start a gamenin the early evening and suddenly it dawn’s outside. I hate myself for loving a game which basically simulates the job of “process optimization”

I always describe it as a puzzle game where all the puzzles are designed by an idiot and that idiot is you.

Hey if your actual job is process optimization, you get to enjoy it twice as much 🥲

wait until you find out about Shapez 2

274? In Germany, we call that ausbaufähig. The factory must grow.

Is that a single save, or your total playtime?

“120 hour anime series” is fair, but “occasionally click a button” is not. If P5 qualifies for that, then every turn-based JRPG ever does.

I was gonna say, that sounds like the first 50 hours or so of FFXIII

This is me and Persona 4.

There’s a lot of good game elements. But it’s SOOOOO MUCH. It’s like a damn visual novel with bits of game.

And I’m sure the payoff is great, since the Persona games are very well received. But after a long day, I don’t want to think. I just want to mash buttons until the pain stops.

If you like monster collection games. Check out shin megami tensei. More rpg than graphic novel. Same overall concepts but none of the daily dating sim like aspect.

I feel like the people looking for a JRPG, having been guided to Persona, that wind up hating Persona, were probably looking for one of the mainline SMT games instead!

Game is okay I guess.

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